New Releases by Barbara Ehrenreich

Las mujeres han controlado tradicionalmente el ambito del hogar y con ello la salud de la familia, el embarazo y el parto. Desde tiempos antiguos era un conocimiento natural que ellas ejercian hasta que empezaron a ser perseguidas y sacrificadas como brujas, por la aparicion del saber racional que fue acaparado por los hombres. Con el paso del tiempo, los expertos han impuesto sus conocimientos pretendiendo que las mujeres sean meras ejecutoras de sus consejos. En diversos paises han surgido movimientos de mujeres que reivindican formas propias de control de su salud y, en general, de aquellas actuaciones de las que son responsables en el hogar o en la familia.

Studie over de omwenteling die op seksueel gebied bij vrouwen heeft plaatsgevonden gedurende de laatste 30 jaar.

This provocative book reveals how the real sexual revolution was initiated by women -- not men -- and how it transformed both our behavior and our understanding of what sex means in our lives. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Analyzes the impact of social service cutbacks, changes in the job market, and victim-blaming myths like the Black matriarchy theses of Daniel Patrick Moynihan and George Gilder.

This dense, well-argued classic underscores the need to take expert advice with a shaker of salt. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English ably show that many experts gleefully hammer recalcitrant souls into a shape acceptable to society, rather than encouraging people to find their own way. The book plunges into 150 years of misbegotten advice to women and questionable insights into feminine nature that have many modern parallels. In the service of better living through science, women have undergone deprivational rest cures that most war rules would disallow, submitted to surgical bludgeoning of ovaries and uterus to quell a list of unladylike behaviors, and humbly followed childcare advice that amounted to abuse. Though slanted by its bent toward worst cases and offenses against only one sex, it offers much to mull over for hopeful seekers of mix-and-bake directions for a better life.